Iran hard-liners throng to rallies staged by state
Execute opposition, some cry
Posted: December 31, 2009 at 5:42 a.m.
Demonstrators gather Tuesday outside the Iranian Embassy in London in support of anti-government activists in Iran. Security forces intensified their crackdown against the opposition with a wave of new arrests Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of hard-line government supporters turned out for state-sponsored rallies Wednesday, some of them calling for the execution of opposition leaders as Iran’s police chief threatened to show “no mercy” in crushing any new protests by the proreform movement.
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